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Share of the American Express Company, 1865. In 1850, American Express was started as a freight forwarding company in Buffalo, New York. [13] It was founded as a joint-stock corporation by the merger of the cash-in-transit companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William G. Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor ...
The first Presbyterian community in America was established in 1640 in Southampton, Long Island New York. [206] Francis Makemie, an Irish Presbyterian immigrant later established churches in Maryland and Virginia. [207] Makemie was born and raised near Ramelton, County Donegal, to Ulster Scots parents.